CLIMATE CHANGE/TPP/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My first week in office, I withdrew from the Trans-Pacific partnership. It would have been totally destructive to your jobs. It would have been a horror show. I withdrew from the one-sided Paris climate accord, which would have cost us so many billions of dollars. And all it would have […]
Category: Climate Change
8/20/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/TAXES: “We can, and we will, deal with climate change. It’s not only a crisis, it’s an enormous opportunity. An opportunity for America to lead the world in clean energy and create millions of new good-paying jobs in the process. And we can pay for these investments by ending loopholes and the president’s […]
8/19/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “When I hear the words ‘climate change,’ I hear another word: ‘jobs.’ We can solve our climate crisis and our economic crisis at the same time. #DemConvention” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 19, 2020 9:28 pm […]
8/17/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/PIPELINES: “I approved the Dakota Access Pipeline immediately. The Keystone Pipeline, 48,000 jobs. One of the great rip offs. It was done in my opinion, to hurt our country because we have so much energy. We’re now energy independent was I got out of this horrible Paris Climate Accord, which was a rip off […]
8/12/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a climate crisis that Donald Trump refuses to even acknowledge. When he thinks about climate change, all we hear is the word hoax.” -Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Speech Transcript August 12: First Campaign Event as Running Mates,” rev.com, Aug. 12, 2020 […]
8/11/2020
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY/CLIMATE CHANGE/GREEN NEW DEAL: “[I]f they went with this crazy Green — it’s like child’s play. If they went with the so-called Green New Deal, you’re talking about a — catastrophic for the country… Wind is nice. It’s nice. It’s — but it’s — it causes tremendous environmental problems, from sight to home values […]
8/9/2020
2020 ELECTION/CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our planet can’t take four more years of Donald Trump. We have to get him out of the White House so we can start treating the climate crisis like the urgent threat it is.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 9, 2020 11:00 am […]
8/6/2020
AOC/CLIMATE CHANGE/GREEN NEW DEAL: “To fully restore American prosperity, we must stop the radical left-wing movement that would destroy our country… They want to rejoin the disastrous Paris Climate Accord, where you’ll pay billions and billions of dollars for the privilege of getting ripped off by other countries; and inflict a socialist takeover of the […]
7/29/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/DEMS/ECONOMY: “If these far-left politicians ever get into power, they will demolish not only your industry, but the entire U.S. economy. Their stated agenda includes rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, spending billions and billions of dollars in order to make us non-competitive and seeking an even higher level of restrictions; mandating net-zero carbon emissions […]
7/29/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/KEYSTONE/PIPELINES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I withdrew from the one-sided, energy-destroying Paris Climate Accord. It was a disaster. It cost us billions of dollars, and it would have made us a noncompetitive nation. We cancelled the Obama administration’s job-crushing Clean Power Plan. You know all about that. I approved the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access […]
7/28/2020
CHINA/CLIMATE CHANGE/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA: “It’s interesting. Nobody ever brings up China. They always bring Russia, Russia, Russia. If we can do something with Russia in terms of nuclear proliferation, which is a very big problem… Bigger problem than global warming. A much bigger problem than global warming in terms of the real world, that would be a great […]
7/19/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/GREEN NEW DEAL: “The Green New Deal is ridiculous, OK? It’s ridiculous. Aside from the fact they want to get rid of second cars. They want to get rid of airplanes. They don’t like it. It affects whatever. They want to get rid of cows.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump […]
7/16/2020
BERNIE SANDERS/CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “Under the ‘unity’ platform Joe Biden published with socialist Bernie Sanders, they are proposing — and this is all in writing; it’s done; they agreed — they are proposing to reenter the job-killing, unfair Paris Climate Accord, which will cost our country trillions of dollars — trillions and trillions of dollars […]
7/16/2020
BUSINESS/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “And old-fashioned incandescent lightbulbs — I brought them back. I brought them back. They have two nice qualities: They’re cheaper and they’re better. They look better, and they make you look so much better. That’s important to all of us. But they’re better and much cheaper. And they were mandated out, legislated out. […]
7/15/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “Biden wants to massively re-regulate the energy economy, rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, which would kill our energy totally. And you’d have to close 25 percent of your businesses and kill oil and gas development.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the Rebuilding of America’s Infrastructure: Faster, Better, Stronger | Atlanta, […]
7/15/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “Meeting the threat of climate change presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to jolt new life into our economy. We’re going to create millions of high-quality, union jobs by building a modern infrastructure and a clean energy future.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 15, 2020 5:00 pm […]
7/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “We also know that transforming the American electricity sector to produce power without also producing carbon pollution — and electrifying an increasing share of our economy — will be the greatest spur to job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century. That’s why we are going to achieve a carbon-pollution free […]
7/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change — he can muster is one word: ‘hoax.’ When I think about climate change — I think of a word as well: ‘jobs.’” -Joe Biden, “We’re Going To Build Back Better and Create a Clean Energy Future,” medium.com, July 14, 2020 […]
7/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “And there is no more consequential challenge that we must meet in this next decade — than the onrushing climate crisis. Left unchecked, it is an existential threat to the health of our planet and to our very survival.” -Joe Biden, “We’re Going To Build Back Better and Create a Clean Energy […]
7/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA: “In 2009, President Obama and I inherited an economy in free fall, and we prevented another Great Depression. We enacted the largest infrastructure plan since President Eisenhower’s interstate highway system, not only generating jobs, but improving the safety of our roads. We made the largest investment in clean energy in history — […]
7/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/OIL: “I mean, I watched Biden. He has a campaign now where he wants to bring energy where you can’t use petroleum products… I understand wind. I understand solar. You don’t have the power. You don’t have the capacity. We would have to close down half of our factories… And then what are […]
7/14/2020
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ/BERNIE SANDERS/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/GREEN NEW DEAL/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden put AOC, a young woman — not talented, in many ways — in charge of his energy plan and the environment. Essentially, her and Bernie Sanders — who ran a lot of times for President, never made it. Good base, but that’s about it. In other […]
7/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE: “And it was going to cost us hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars for the privilege of being involved in the Paris Climate Accord. And you just have to look at what took place this year in Paris and France, where money was being sent to countries all over the world and […]
7/14/2020
CHINA/CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “As Vice President, Biden was a leading advocate of the Paris Climate Accord, which was unbelievably expensive to our country. It would’ve crushed American manufacturers while allowing China to pollute — pollute the atmosphere with impunity. Yet one more gift from Biden to the Chinese Communist Party.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President […]
7/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, all he can muster is one word: ‘hoax.’ When I think about climate change, I think of a word as well: ‘jobs.’ Good-paying, union jobs that put Americans to work.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 14, 2020 2:30 pm […]
7/9/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our President wasn’t prepared for this pandemic. He ignored the detailed briefings and warning that our administration left behind. The threat of a pandemic we told them was coming. We gave all this to his administration and transition, but he shut it all down. He shut down the pandemic office […]
6/21/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “President Trump continues to deny the scientific evidence in front of his own eyes and attack the progress we’ve made on climate change. It’s unacceptable. In a Biden Administration, we’ll turbocharge our efforts to achieve a 100% clean energy economy.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 21, 2019 1:25 pm […]
5/24/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Climate change poses an existential threat to our future — and time is running out to address it. We have to get Donald Trump out of the White House and tackle the challenge head-on.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 24, 2020 6:15 pm […]
5/22/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/FRACKING/JOE BIDEN: “I would not stop fracking. I’d gradually move away from fracking. I would just not do more fracking on federal lands. I would gradually move us out of the position of relying on oil and gas, excuse me, and coal… So, look, the way we can create millions of jobs is moving […]
2/26/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “The evidence is clear: we can’t wait to take action on climate change. We have to get Donald Trump out of the White House and tackle this crisis head-on. The survival of our planet depends on it.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Feb. 26, 2020 4:31 pm […]
4/26/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “America has always met every big challenge with an even bigger solution — this moment should be no different. We need an infrastructure program that will combat climate change and create good-paying jobs at the same time.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 26, 2020 8:00 pm […]
4/22/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “This year, Earth Day comes amid global crises: the difficult, immediate, and undeniable reality of pandemic disease, and the existential threat of climate change — which we are already experiencing and which threatens equally deadly results in the near future if we fail to act. COVID-19 and the climate emergency both underscore the […]
3/15/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/OIL: “Number one, no more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.” -Joe Biden as quoted by CNN, “CNN Democration Presidential Primary Debate. Aired 8-10p ET,” cnn.com, Mar. 15, […]
3/15/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “I would immediately rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, which I helped put together. I would call the 100 nations — over 100 nations, but the 100 major polluters to the United States in the first 100 days to up the ante and make it clear that, in fact, we would — in […]
3/10/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “My fellow Americans, we have to once again lead the world. Donald Trump’s America First policies made America alone. And the fight against climate change, we have to rally the rest of the world to act and act now. Rejoin the Paris Climate Accord on day one. Make it clear to our […]
3/6/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “America has always met every big challenge with an even bigger solution — this moment should be no different. We need an infrastructure program that will combat climate change and create good-paying jobs at the same time.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Mar. 6, 2020 4:35 pm […]
2/25/2020
CHINA/CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “I spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader had by the time we left office. This is a guy who is — doesn’t have a democratic, with a small D, bone in his body. This is a guy who is a thug, who in fact has a million Uyghurs […]
2/19/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “It is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming… I would immediately reinstate all of the elimination of — of what Trump has eliminated in terms of the EPA. I would secondly make sure that we had 500,000 new charging stations in every new highway we built in the United States of […]
2/18/2020
CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hoisting the spoils of victories in California’s hard-fought water wars, President Donald Trump is directing more of the state’s precious water to wealthy farmers and other agriculture interests when he visits their Republican Central Valley stronghold Wednesday [2-19-20]. Changes by the Trump administration are altering how federal authorities decide who gets […]
1/22/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: [Reporter: “Do you still think climate change is hoax?”] “No, not at all. I think what is — I think aspects of it are. I think that some people are — they put it at a level that is, you know, unrealistic, to a point you can’t live your lives.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks […]
1/18/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway. It will also look terrible. Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!” -Donald Trump, […]
1/14/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/JOE BIDEN: “I headed up the Recovery Act, which put more money into moving away from fossil fuels to — to solar and wind energy than ever has occurred in the history of America. Look, what we have to do is we have to act right away. And the way we act right away […]
1/3/2020
CLIMATE CHANGE/INFRASTRUCTURE/LEGISLATION/REGULATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal agencies would no longer have to take climate change into account when they assess the environmental impacts of highways, pipelines and other major infrastructure projects, according to a Trump administration plan that would weaken the nation’s benchmark environmental law. The proposed changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act could […]
12/31/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top panel of government-appointed scientists, many of them hand-selected by the Trump administration, said on Tuesday [12-31-19] that three of President Trump’s most far-reaching and scrutinized proposals to weaken major environmental regulations are at odds with established science. Draft letters posted online Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Advisory […]
12/31/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How is the Paris Accord doing? Don’t ask! https://t.co/9N0yibmDkj“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 31, 2019 6:25 pm […]
12/13/2019
CHILDREN/CLIMATE CHANGE/CYBERBULLYING/MELANIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Melania Trump, who last year promoted anti-cyberbullying tips as part of her child-focused kindness campaign called ‘Be Best,’ sidestepped any comment Friday [12-13-19] on President Trump’s recent decision to mock Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist, on Twitter. ‘Be Best’ is the first lady’s initiative, and she will continue to […]
12/12/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/CYBERBULLYING/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump revived his attacks on 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday [12-12-19], criticizing Time magazine for naming her Person of the Year and telling Thunberg to ‘chill!’ ‘So ridiculous,’ Trump, who was also on the shortlist to receive the honor, complained on Twitter. ‘Greta must work on […]
12/12/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 12, 2019 7:22 am […]
12/6/2019
BUSINESS/CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump’s planned pullout from the Paris climate agreement has some U.S. companies worried that a business opportunity worth hundreds of billions of dollars is going to pass them by. The withdrawal could lock U.S. businesses out of a huge portion of the rapidly growing global market, already worth an […]
11/12/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “Well, you know, climate change is a very complex issue. I consider myself to be, in many ways, an environmentalist, believe it or not. When I build buildings, I did the best environmental impact statements… But to me, it’s clean air and crystal-clean, clear water. And we have now the cleanest air we’ve […]
11/11/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “I would immediately rejoin the Paris climate accord, which I helped put together.” -Joe Biden, “Former VP and Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Speaks at a Town Hall,” cnn.com, Nov. 11, 2019 […]
11/9/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Varneyco: STU: ‘Voters everywhere have been rejecting costly climate dreams!’ #NaturalGas #ClimateChange #Fracking #MyTake #VarneyCo ht…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2019 7:03 am […]
11/4/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations on Monday [11-4-19] that it would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, leaving global climate diplomats to plot a way forward without the cooperation of the world’s largest economy. The action, which came on the first day possible […]
10/28/2019
AUTO INDUSTRY/CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Breaking with some of their biggest rivals, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota said Monday they were intervening on the side of the Trump administration in an escalating battle with California over fuel economy standards for automobiles. Their decision pits them against leading competitors, including Honda and Ford, who this […]
10/6/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our planet just experienced the hottest September on record — yet President Trump continues to dismiss the devastating effects of climate change. As president, I’ll address this grave threat and lead the world in addressing our climate emergency.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Oct. 6, 2019 1:52 pm […]
9/25/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Interior Department is forcing key staff responsible for environmental reviews to move west as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the number of federal workers based in Washington, two people familiar with the plans told POLITICO. The move is the latest by the Trump administration to eliminate environmental […]
9/24/2019
CHILDREN/CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump mocked 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Twitter late Monday [9-23-19]. Posting a fatalistic statement the Swedish teen had made earlier Monday at the United Nations’ special meeting on climate change, Trump tweeted: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful […]
9/23/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 23, 2019 10:36 pm […]
9/23/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The politics of climate change claim the main U.N. stage Monday [9-23-19] in New York with appeals from world leaders (and notable absences) and some new proposals to tackle greenhouse gas emissions. At this one-day climate summit that kicks off the annual U.N. General Assembly, the star attractions are Boris Johnson, […]
9/14/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “We must do everything in our power to address the climate emergency. As president, I’ll put America on course to become a 100% clean energy economy with net-zero emissions by 2050. We will lead the world in the fight against climate change once again.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Sep. 14, 2019 2:51 pm […]
9/11/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @PrisonPlanet: A ship carrying passengers who included a group of ‘Climate Change Warriors’ who are concerned about melting Arctic ice g…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 11, 2019 10:41 pm […]
9/11/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “Climate change doesn’t only threaten our environment — it threatens our economy, health, and national security. We must take urgent action to address this crisis before it’s too late.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Sep. 11, 2019 9:24 pm […]
9/4/2019
ENVIRONMENT/CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “7. The badly flawed Paris Climate Agreement protects the polluters, hurts Americans, and cost a fortune. NOT ON MY WATCH! 8. I want crystal clean water and the cleanest and the purest air on the planet – we’ve now got that!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 4, 2019 4:08 pm […]
9/4/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “8 FACTS that #FakeNewsCNN will ignore in tonight’s ‘Climate Forum’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 4, 2019 4:08 pm […]
8/30/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/G7/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “World leaders and major companies intent on dealing with climate change have settled on a strategy for handling President Donald Trump: snub him. When Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency this week proposed withdrawing Obama-era rules to limit emissions of methane from oil and gas wells or pipelines, major oil companies said […]
8/29/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The move to rescind environmental rules governing emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, brings to 84 the total number of environmental rules that the Trump administration has worked to repeal. Officials at the White House, the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies have called the regulations burdensome to the fossil […]
8/12/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/ESA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Monday [8-12-19] announced that it would change the way the Endangered Species Act is applied, significantly weakening the nation’s bedrock conservation law and making it harder to protect wildlife from the multiple threats posed by climate change. The new rules would make it easier to remove a […]
7/25/2019
AUTO INDUSTRY/CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Four of the world’s largest automakers have struck a deal with California to reduce automobile emissions, siding with the state in its fight with President Trump over one of his most consequential regulatory rollbacks. In coming weeks, the Trump administration is expected to all but eliminate an Obama-era regulation designed […]
7/12/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump should ‘admit that climate change is real’ and start figuring out ways to confront it. That wasn’t advice from prominent congressional Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but rather from one of the president’s staunchest allies in Congress: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina… In response to […]
7/10/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “President Trump can avoid talking about climate change all he wants, but it doesn’t change the fact that it is real, is here, and requires our urgent action. We can’t afford four more years of a climate change denier in the White House.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 10, 2019 7:15 pm […]
6/28/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/G20/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is pressuring some of his fellow leaders to help weaken a G-20 commitment on fighting climate change in a move that could kill chances of agreeing on a final leaders’ declaration. Three senior officials told POLITICO that Trump is trying to enlist the leaders of Saudi Arabia, […]
6/26/2019
AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada has signaled a willingness to buck one of President Trump’s most significant environmental rollbacks — a major weakening of auto pollution standards — by signing a clean-car deal with California, the state leading the fight against the rollback. Wednesday’s [6-26-19] Agreement, which pledges to advance the use of clean […]
6/19/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/EPA/OBAMA/REGULATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [6-19-19] issued its long-awaited replacement for former President Barack Obama’s most ambitious climate change regulation, rolling back rules in an effort to salvage the declining role of coal in the nation’s power supply. Critics charge that the new rule would cripple the fight against climate change […]
6/19/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ETHICS/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE/UN: “President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations hit headwinds Wednesday [6-19-19] as senators questioned the impact of her family’s coal fortune on her ability to work on climate issues at the world body. Kelly Craft, the current US ambassador to Canada, acknowledged during a Senate […]
6/19/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/HUMAN RIGHTS/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/UN: “President Trump’s choice for United Nations ambassador said Wednesday [6-19-19] that Saudi Arabia must be held accountable for rights abuses and that humans have contributed to climate change, posing ‘real risks to our planet.’ The positions expressed by the nominee, Kelly Knight Craft, currently the ambassador to Canada, suggested she […]
6/11/2019
CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “At our urging, we are finally starting to see some progress on better forest management. Remember I went to California? I saw something that nobody has ever seen. It was like a blowtorch… They were saying it was global warming. Could’ve had something to do with it. But you need forest management. You […]
6/11/2019
CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “At our urging, we are finally starting to see some progress on better forest management. Remember I went to California? I saw something that nobody has ever seen. It was like a blowtorch. It was 80-mile-an-hour winds and the death and destruction was incredible. And I said, ‘You need forest management.’ They were […]
6/5/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Plagiarism charge against Sleepy Joe Biden on his ridiculous Climate Change Plan is a big problem, but the Corrupt Media will save him. His other problem is that he is drawing flies, not people, to his Rallies. Nobody is showing up, I mean nobody. You can’t win without people!” –Donald […]
5/27/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term ‘global warming’ into a punch line rather than a prognosis. Now, after two years spent unraveling the policies of his […]
5/17/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “Talking about forests — clean up your forests; you won’t have forest fires. Clean them up. He blames it on global warming. I said, ‘No, try cleaning the floor of the forest a little bit so you don’t have four feet of leaves and broken trees that have sit there for 25 years.’ […]
4/29/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “We must turbocharge our efforts to address climate change that threatens communities across the country. Through clean, renewable energy and cleaner, safer, faster transportation, America will not only help the environment but provide millions of good-paying middle-class jobs.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Apr. 29, 2019 5:35 pm […]
4/4/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration may have shut down the government advisory committee on climate change started by President Barack Obama, but its members considered the work so important that they did not stop working. The Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment was created in 2015 by the Obama administration to […]
3/16/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/FRANCE: “How is the Paris Environmental Accord working out for France? After 18 weeks of rioting by the Yellow Vest Protesters, I guess not so well! In the meantime, the United States has gone to the top of all lists on the Environment.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 16, 2019 5:22 pm […]
3/12/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: ‘The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.’ @foxandfriends Wow!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 12, 2019 […]
3/6/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal government is doing a worse job managing the problem of climate change under President Donald Trump, according to an investigation from the Government Accountability Office that included climate change on its High Risk List report on Wednesday [3-6-19]. This year’s High Risk List is a 293-page assessment of the […]
3/3/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/GREEN NEW DEAL: “Under the Green New Deal — which somebody described as a high school term paper written by a poor student — it’s true. It’s true. Who would believe it? It so — it’s so bad… The Green New Deal would completely abolish the American oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear power […]
3/1/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Friday [3-1-19] that he believes climate change could threaten economic growth. It’s a position that puts him at odds with the Trump administration and the President himself, who has openly questioned whether the climate is warming at all…Hassett, an economist long involved in […]
2/28/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other. The president’s senior advisers […]
2/20/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A climate change skeptic who once compared ‘demonization’ of carbon dioxide to the treatment of Jews under Adolf Hitler may lead a proposed White House committee tasked with studying whether climate change poses a national security threat, The Washington Post reported Wednesday [2-20-19]. The Post, citing planning documents obtained by the […]
2/10/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 10, 2019 5:04 […]
1/28/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 28, […]
1/20/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]
1/8/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On a sunny summer’s day at historic Christopher Columbus Park on Boston’s waterfront, it’s hard to picture the dormant fury of the Atlantic Ocean as it laps softly at the creaking docks. But one day, according to the city’s climate projections,a massive storm driven by unusually high winds and high tides […]
12/10/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Trump administration officials at high-stakes climate talks here offered an unapologetic defense of fossil fuels on Monday [12-10-18], arguing that a rapid retreat from coal, oil and gas was unrealistic. While that stance brought scorn from environmentalists and countries that favor stronger action to fight global warming, there are signs that […]
12/6/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will reverse an Obama-era coal emissions rule as part of its effort to loosen restrictions on the coal industry, just days after a US government report warned that aggressive action is needed to curb greenhouse gases and ease the impact of global warming. The reversal won’t lead to […]
12/3/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Andrew Wheeler, the former coal lobbyist who is now acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was a ‘driving force’ behind the agenda of Sen. James Inhofe, who called climate change a ‘hoax,’ according to people familiar with Wheeler’s work for the senator. President Donald Trump has said he intends to nominate […]
12/1/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/G20/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump has issues. And the team of G-20 ‘sherpas’ negotiating the joint statement to sum up the annual leaders’ summit were more than happy to take note of them if it meant the explosive American president wouldn’t blow up their work. One of Trump’s issues is the multilateral trading […]
11/27/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a wide-ranging interview, President Donald Trump confronted why he’s voiced skepticism on a climate change report issued over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, telling the Washington Post “I don’t see” the devastating climate change effects warned about in the report. ‘One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, […]
11/27/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fighting climate change could be America’s new New Deal. The effects of global warming on virtually all aspects of American society could be devastating, according to a government report released on Friday. Rather than seize on its findings as a way to boost American innovation, economic output and jobs, President Trump’s […]
11/23/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A massive report issued by the Trump administration on Friday [11-23-18] emphasizes the dire threat that human-caused global warming poses to the United States and its citizens. ‘Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities,’ researchers […]